USPTO Patents Application 10764010

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pTT/US 01/42155

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STAMMBERGER T ET AL: "Determination of 3D
cartilage thickness data from MR imaging:
computational method and reproducibility
in the living"

MAGNETIC RESONANCE IN MEDICINE, ACADEMIC

PRESS, DULUTH, MN, US,

vol. 41, no. 3, March 1999 (1999-03),

pages 529-536, XP002161461

ISSN: 0740-3194

cited in the application

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page 530, paragraphs MATERIALS , AND , METHODS

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ZOHARA A. COHEN ET AL. : "Knee cartilage
topography, thickness, and contact areas
"from MRI : in - vitro calibration and in— vivo
measurements"

OSTEOARTHRITIS AND CARTILAGE, 'Online!

vol. 7, 1999, pages 95-109, XP002216548

Retrieved from the Internet:

<URL : http : //ci teseer . n j . nec . com/477079 . htm

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page 97, left-hand column, line 8
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ANDRIACCHI THOMAS P ET AL: "Methods for
evaluating the progression of
osteoarthritis"

JOURNAL OF REHABILITATION RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT, THE SERVICE, WASHINGTON, DC,
US,

vol. 37, no. 2, March 2000 (2000-03),
pages 163-170, XP002188111
ISSN: 0748-7711

page 167, left-hand column, line 45 - line
55

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H0NGYI LI ET AL: "A boundary optimisation
algorithm for delineating brain objects
from CT-scans"

NUCLEAR SCIENCE SYMPOSIUM AND MEDICAL
IMAGING CONFERENCE, 1993., 1993 IEEE
CONFERENCE RECORD. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA
31 OCT. -6 NOV. 1993, NEW YORK, NY,
USA, IEEE,

31 October 1993 (1993-10-31), pages
1553-1557, XP010119366
ISBN: 0-7803-1487-5
page 1553, paragraph II
page 1554, paragraph III

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